im trying to get my bass big enough so that they wont be prey size when i release them in spring. right now theyre on goldfish pellets, chopped up shrimp from the grocery store, and tropical color enhance flakes. just looking for a food to encourage growth a bit more quickly. is the shrimp good? i would like to find something available at the grocery store so i can buy in bulk and ideas greatly appreciated. thanks.
what to feed?
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Very illegal, and could wipe out entire fish populations with non-native disease for which natives have no immunity...... Just because it doesn't look like it has disease, doesn't mean that it doesn't have any. Disease isn't usually apparent in fish until the immune system is weakened by stress.
Even releasing them into a private pond could contaminate other bodies of water in the event excessive rain.
Even releasing them into a private pond could contaminate other bodies of water in the event excessive rain.
As the above posters said don't release the fish. I used to feed my natives (a few sunny's I pulled out of a lake) gut loaded trout worms I bought at a local bait shop. I mixed in some vitamins and crushed flake with compost from my kitchen to feed them. It made big worms and big fish.
Good ? NativeFishKeeper and what does the state fish people and fisheries do to not introduce these things?
I agree, but I think the problem isnt with good fishkeepers like us.....I believe its because of the idiots who would release a sick Oscar from walmart in a lake like Okeechobee in Fla. who bought his filter at a garage sale and hadnt cleaned it in a year. Its the same thing with bait buckets....I of course clean mine and when I had a boat I cleaned it also.....but some people dont and would unknowingly transport zebra mussels and vhs.
i totaly understand the idea of preventing the spread of disease but im curious. what difference is it if i buy minnows at a bait shop. or what difference is it if i buy a bass from a bulk tank at a hatchery and release it into my pond.....any how i guess the law is the law. thanks again everyone